Physical description

Book with brown cover, title embossed in silver on front. Title, editor's surname and publisher's name embossed in silver on the spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At bottom right of the front-end paper is a coloured donation sticker: AHNL badge (red and blue ink) and blue printed words: 'this book was donated to AHNL Inc-Nursing Archives by' Alfred Hospital Library 21/3/18 (written in black ink). Previous catalogue number is written in black ink at top right of this page. On the front end- page (and pages i & iii) are purple stamps 'Alfred Hospiital School of Nursing Library' Fixed on the front end-page is a manilla pocket for a library card and there is also a library barcode (with black line drawn through it. Inside the back cover is another library barcode with a line obliterating detail. On page v there is a black stamp "West London Hospital"

Summary

A compilation of Florence Nightingale's essays and writings: Subsidiary notes as to the introduction of female nursing into military hospitals (1858), Notes on nursing: what it is and what it is not (1859), Notes on different systems of nursing; from notes on hospitals (a pamphlet 1863), Suggestions on a system of nursing for hospitals in India (1865), Suggestions on the subject of providing, training and organizing nurses for the sick poor in workhouse infirmaries (1867) On trained nurses for the sick poor (a pamphlet, 1876), Nurses, training of , and nursing the sick (1882), Sick-nursing and health-nursing (1893), Health teaching in towns and villages, rural hygiene (1894)